'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' – Douglas Smith, author of "Rasputin: The Biography"'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' – Sue Prideaux, author of "I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche"Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar's inn...